Simple site monitor. Gets urls from text file and checks http status code for each.

monitor.py

#!/usr/bin/env

import httplib

file_list = open('sites.txt', 'r')

def check_site(url):

  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url)

	try:
		conn.request("HEAD", "/")
	except Exception, e:
		return None
	else:
		response = conn.getresponse()
		return response
	


lines = file_list.readlines()
print lines

for site_url in lines:
	
	print site_url

	site = check_site(site_url.strip())
	print site_url + ' status: ', site.status, site.reason

	if site.status > 400:
		print 'ERROR. Notify.'

file_list.close()

sites.txt

google.com
example.com